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is also equally so with horses who are blind in one 

 eye onry. No one seems, as yet, to have been able 

 to assign any satisfactory reason for this being the 

 case. If I may be permitted to hark back to 

 a previous chapter, I should like to mention another 

 almost equally curious fact, and one of which I was 

 not aware till a few years ago. I have never 

 experienced a case in my own stable, but I have 

 been so assured by so many people that it most 

 undoubtedly is true, that I am bound to believe it, 

 inasmuch as my informants were all practical, and, 

 I may further add, essentially truthful. It is this. 

 Some horses have what are called ' wolf-teeth.' 

 These teeth are situated just in front of the first 

 grinders. It is by no means uncommon to find 

 them in horses, but it is asserted that these teeth 

 are very often the cause of a horse shying, and that 

 they very much affect the sight at times. On their 

 removal the habit of shying; ceases. With an ordi- 

 nary tooth I can quite understand that this may be 

 the case, but since these ' wolf-teeth' have no fang, 

 and are merely rudimentary, I am quite at a loss 

 to tell how the sight can be affected by their 

 presence. I have known cases in which horses 

 have suffered from these teeth to an extent which 

 has left no doubt in my mind that their sight is 

 undoubtedly impaired by the irritation caused by 



